CRUSADE OF PRAYER
National Eucharistic Congress This Special Message to "" The Listener" has been received from His Grace Archbishop O’Shea HE National Eucharistic Congress which is being held in Wellington, February 1-4, | is intended to be a profession of Faith in Almighty God and a public acknowledgment of the Kingship of His Divine Son. It was originally intended to be the contribution of the Catholic body in New Zealand to the Centennial Celebrations to show our gratitude to God and the civil authorities and our goodwill and. co-operation with all our fellow citizens in honouring the first hundred years of our existence aS a Dominion in the Commonwealth of Nations. As Catholics and Citizens we have much to be thankful for; a wholesome toleration amongst the people of the country; freedom to live our own lives; a rich and beautiful country called a "terrestrial Paradise" by one of my Episcopal brethren in France, who, alas, cannot be with us for the Congress because of this unhappy war. The outbreak of war after our preparations were well begun, afforded another motive for deciding to go on with our project, and to make it a Crusade of Prayer for World Peace before the work of spiritual and material destruction has gone too far to save Christianity and Civilisation, both in the Old World and the New. May the Congress serve to bring home to all New Zealanders, no matter their religious affiliations, that it is the supernatural alone which counts and that all the frantic striving after the material things of life and the neglect of the spiritual, leads to ‘social injustice and its consequences as seen to-day can end only in general despair and ruin. May the Congress and the faith that inspired it, bring peace and happiness not only to New Zealand but to the great world beyond! + Thode OL ee. Aneltietusp J Welling oF,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 12
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315CRUSADE OF PRAYER New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 12
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